Major,

Deer hunting was not the same this year with out you even though we are livn da HUNT LIFE. Second shotgun season started out with a thump. One of my prized button bucks was hit by a car and killed right at the bottom of Log Cabin Hill RD about a half hour before shooting time opening morning. The corn on the lower and upper fields was harvested last Tuesday and Wednesday so I think it changed the deer movement a little but not for long. Friday I harvested half of a rack with 7 points and a 7 point management deer. The half of a rack with 7 points is a long story and was a very long shot with no kill. Anyways, my buddy Bob from Indiana arrived late Friday night and must of had a very stiff trigger finger that he needed to get worked out. Saturday afternoon he decided to go to the stand that you took your trophy buck out of. Well at 3:57 he sends me a text message asking if I had seen anything and before I could reply I heard him shoot. I can not text very quickly and before I could respond asking him if that was him that shot another shot goes off from the same spot. He sends another text informing me that he is wacking and stacking as we call it. Then he asks if I would pick him up at the stand at the end of hunt. I told him that he had to hit the trifecta or pull off a Hat Trick in order to get picked up. Well next thing you know another shot is fired from the same spot and I receive another text telling me that I will be picking him up at the stand. Now I know you know the old saying " Take a doe so the heard doesn't grow ". Well at this point I was not sure if I was going to even have a heard left because it was only 4:30 and we still had a half hour to go. Congrats to my buddy Bob for harvesting three great deer in less then 30 minutes. The remaining corn on Condits Ranch is suppose to be harvested this week. We are suppose to get 6 to 12" of snow tonight and tomorrow and then have temperatures in the single digets to low teens. Muzzle loading season opens Friday morning and I hope to have some Trophy buck pictures instead of a bunch of does. Good Hunting and Merry Christmas. I will update next Monday.

LIV'N DA HUNTLIFE

R.K.